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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 3, Fable 17</span><span class="fp-text">LES ARBRES SOUS LA TUTELLE DES DIEUX</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber III, Fabula XVII</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ARBORES IN DEORUM TUTELA</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Les Dieux choisirent un jour les arbres</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">qu'ils voulaient protéger. Jupiter prit le chêne,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Vénus le myrte, Apollon le laurier,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Cybèle le pin, Hercule le superbe peuplier.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Minerve, surprise, leur demanda pourquoi ils prenaient des arbres stériles&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">—&nbsp;Pourquoi&nbsp;? répondit Jupiter,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">c'est pour ne pas paraître vendre pour leurs fruits tant d'honneur.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">—&nbsp;Par Hercule&nbsp;! répliqua Minerve, on dira ce que l'on voudra,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">moi, je préfère l'olivier et pour son fruit.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Ma fille, lui dit alors le père des dieux et des hommes,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">on vante avec raison ta sagesse,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">car si nos actions sont inutiles, la gloire en est vaine.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Olim quas vellent esse in tutela sua</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">divi legerunt arbores ; quercus Jovi</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et <span class="fp-correction" title="myrtos  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">myrtus</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="myrtus  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">myrtos</span></span> Veneri placuit, <span class="fp-correction" title="Poebo  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">Phoebo</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="Phoebo  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">Poebo</span></span> laurea,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">pinus <span class="fp-correction" title="Cybebe  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">Cybebae</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="Cybebae  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">Cybebe</span></span>, Neptuno, populus celsa Herculi.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Minerva ammirans <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n108/mode/1up">p.45</a>]</span> quare steriles sumerent</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">interrogavit. Causam dixit Jupiter&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;<span class="fp-correction" title="Honore  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">Honorem</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="Honorem  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">Honore</span></span> <span class="fp-correction" title="fructum  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">fructu</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="fructu  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">fructum</span></span> ne videamur vendere.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">—&nbsp;At, mehercule&nbsp;! narrabit quod quis voluerit,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">oliva nobis propter fructus est gratior.&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Tunc sic deorum, gentium atque hominum sator&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;O nata, merito sapiens dicere omnibus.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Nisi utile est quod facimus, stulta est gloria.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Cette fable conseille de ne rien faire qui ne soit utile.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Nihil agere quod non prosit fabella monet.</span></span></span></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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